Fani-Kayode warns APC against Muslim/Muslim ticket for 2015
By Olorunfemi Ojo
A chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and a former Minister
of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, has
warned fielding an all Muslim presidential ticket for 2015 general elections.
Fani-Kayode issued this warning yesterday and prophesised a bitter defeat for the APC if they do not reconsider the plan.
“The biggest mistake that my party, the APC, can make is to field a Muslim/Muslim ticket in the 2015 Presidential election.
“If we do that we will not only offend the Christian community, but we will also lose the election woefully,” the ex- minister stated.
The former minister reminded that the Social Democratic Party had fielded M.K.O Abiola and Baba Gana Kingibe, both Muslims, and still went ahead to garner a landslide victory in the annulled election. However, he emphasized that Nigeria does not live in 1993 conditions anymore.
“Whether we like it or not, we must accept the fact that religion plays a major role in our politics today.
“Our party must have both a Christian and a Muslim on the ticket if we want to be taken seriously in the Presidential election,” he stated.
Mr Fani-Kayode further declared that presenting a Christian/Christian ticket is also unacceptable, because “the country belongs to both Muslims and Christians”.
“The APC is the only hope for Nigeria. Let us not mess it up by making the wrong choices. A word is enough for the wise,” he concluded.
There has been a rumour that APC might agree on Buhari and Tinubu ticket for the 2015 presidential elections.
